Royal Enfield 500 JS Bullet (made in Redditch)

ロイヤルエンフィールド 500 JS バレット（レディッチ製）

Hello everybody. What have I got for you today? I’ve got uh a Reddicu built Royal Enfield 500 JS bullet. Uh this one is 1957, so it’s a year older than me. Yeah. Um, as you can see, it’s on magneto and it is the lighter frame. It’s one of the better frames this is. And it is a work in progress really. Um, I can’t run it up very easily. The carburetor is all blocked up and needs cleaning out. Um, but yeah, it’s all there in principle. It’s got the uh twinsided brake on it. So, you’ve got a 6-in brake on this side there, and you’ve got 6-in brake on this side. I’ll get the grass off it. So, it’s a double-sided brake. I see the engine numbers. JS. I think you can see that JS. Uh, which is the same as the frame number. So, it’s a Reddit built one. Um, looks like it’s leaking a little bit around the head gasket. Nothing that can’t be put right. Nice old bike. Nice old bike. It’s got an 18 L fuel tank on this one, so it should uh go for several miles. So, if you’ve never heard of a JS or you don’t know what a JS bullet is, it’s um the 500 version. I think they released it in 1953, I think, the 500 and ended it in 1961. Let me just fiddle about with this camera a minute because I don’t think you’re getting a lot of sound. Bear with me. There we go. Hopefully, you should get some sound now. Yeah. So, it’s got an AML monolock carburetor on it. Um, swinging arm. It’s a different frame. It’s It’s the same frame as the Interceptors. Basically, it’s an alternator electrics with an Lucas SR1 magneto and a nice genuine chronometric speedo. Now, the bike’s been covered in some sort of protection protective stuff. I think it’s quite sort of sticky, so you want a good clean up just as I got it. It’s going to get a new downpipe. Um, I don’t know where this downpipe came from. But it uh it doesn’t fit nicely. Not at all, I’m afraid. It’s it’s been heated up there and bent because it goes in too far there. It’s uh the other thing is it’s got comes down and then it goes straight and they they never did that. And I checked on Hitchcock’s website and um they’re selling these ones as well. There a straight bit there. They should come around in a nice gentle curve all the way around. So we’ll get a new downpipe. Um, then the silencer can be mounted on the inside of the that this bracket instead of on the outside, which makes it stick out too far. Should be on the inside, but the pipe won’t let it. So, if that bend was pulled out, it could probably uh probably fit better. It the bike’s pretty grubby. It’s uh it’s been stood for quite a while, but um it’s a the real deal. It’s a proper Reddic 500. Um it differs in quite a few ways to the Indian version in the fact is it’s got the pressure relief valve for the rocker feed. So, it can’t build up pressure in the rocker feed pipes. It diverts it back into the timing cover and then back to the tank. So, it gives the oil pump uh both oil pumps a bit of an easier life. But, it will clean up and polish up, but it is a work in progress. I’ve got I need to get it running nicely. It’s not running nicely at the moment. It does run. Um, but it the carburetor is um I need to get the pilot jet out and have a look at that and uh check. But it is a new carburetor on it. So, I just thought I’d show you this um as an interim sort of uh video really cuz I’m going to I’m going to be doing a ride out video on something else in a minute. So, you’ll probably get two videos today that tide you over for the weekend. Yeah. Instead of get having the uh triangular tool boxes like the earlier ones did, they’ve got this which is uh where the air cleaner is and the battery and uh everything else fits in there quite nicely. It’s got the uh four-speed gearbox with the neutral finder. Um I’ve only run this briefly. Uh it’s not an easy starter, which says pilot jet to me. Um it doesn’t seem to like a lot of choke and it doesn’t take it over evenly. So u I will sort all that very shortly. Yeah. So, I just wanted to show you it. Um, it’s got a few upgrades. I mean, it’s got uh H hallogen light in there, very blue, bluey white. And you got the dip switch there. I don’t know. As I like H hallogen lights myself, I might uh put a normal bulb in that because the alternator is only charging the battery and the magnet, it doesn’t need it to run. The magneto uh well, it would have done, but the magneto has been converted to it’s got a Thor spark triggering mechanism in it and a coil hidden somewhere, which will probably be in here somewhere. So, um, it needs a probably needs a a new coil put in in in the mag and then the mag can work. But it works okay as it is. It’s got the Lucas Alt horn. It’s a bit uh bit of a stalker. It’s had new rims. This bike, I’ve got all the paperwork uh with it as well, has had over five grand spent on it. So, I dread to think what it looked like before the money was spent on it, but it’s got um it will clean up the tree really nicely. Now, the paintwork’s a bit dull. It wants polishing up a bit. And it could all be done. It can all be done. Good looking bike. I got it off a nice gentleman in Wales. Um I’ll put a link to uh his YouTube channel. Um he’s got a classic 500. Sorry, he’s got a classic 350 and he does rides out and he shows Wales at its absolute best. bits of whales that you never normally see. And I subscribed to him and when I spoke to him about this bike, he said that, “Oh, I’m one of your subscribers as well.” So, he subscribed to me anyway. So, he can keep an eye on the bike now. But, uh, yes, I’m going to improve it. I’m going to change that downpipe. It’s not the right one. Well, it’s not bent the right way. It should should look nice look nicer than that. Um it Yeah, it’s just got a a bad bend in it. If you look down on it, you can see how the the pipe goes in and it doesn’t need to. Just needs to tuck in behind the footrest a little bit further out, which would pivot the the silencer in. And then you can put the mountain on the inside, which is where it’s supposed to be. But um it is what it is at the moment. But it wants a damn good polish up. And uh yeah, it’s an awful lot of money to spend on a bike. Five grand, isn’t it? Doing it up. You know, everything was done. Everything. The engine was completely rebuilt and it’s got a roller bearing crank in it. Now, the roll the the big end was uh converted over to one of Hitchcock’s um uh roller bearing conversions. So, that’s a huge modification. That’s good. A good modification that is. Um all the clutch is all new. I say the brake shoes are new, the wheel rims are new. There’s just reams of paperwork for it showing everything that’s been spent on it. I mean, it had three just over £35,000 worth of parts put on it. So, I think she was fairly tired back in the day. Whether the mileage is original, I don’t know. 44,997. You could be, don’t know. Um, it’s on an age related number, which is all right, but it is a 1957 bike. You see it’s got twin cables off the front brake to work both sides of the brake. Probably wants a little bit of adjustment there. I think there’s several things to do on this bike um to make it a lot nicer. But what has been done is very nice. I spoke to the guy that actually did all the work on it. Um, he’s a proper man, you know. I mean, his brief was whatever it wants, give it to it. Money, no object. So, he did. And, uh, he knows his stuff. So, yeah, there we are. I just thought I’d just show you that and you can uh and it’s quite a wide tank. that is. But um it’s got a scratch in the tank. I’m going to try and get some paint to match that. Uh it’s not very much, but it’s just a scratch. And apparently what it was is the decompressor lever was put underneath and when you turned your handlebars it caught the end of the lever caught the tank and just scratched it. Not the end of the world. So you’ve got the clutch, front uh decompressor, choke, front brake and throttle. That’s about it really. in the light switches here. Yeah, I’m quite looking forward to this is actually on the road. I’ve got it insured. It’s on the road ready to go. Um I just got to sort the carburetor out really and then I can ride it. But maybe I’ll do it this weekend, but it’s supposed to be wet this weekend. So maybe later on in the week when it dries up a bit, we’ll take a trip out on it. But it is it is very different from the uh the Indian bullets in in quite a few ways. Obviously the breather that’s a reddish uh breather on there with the three bolts holding it on which breathes. There’s no breathers from the um timing cover, although there is one in the neck of the filler. So, um we’ll keep an eye on that and see what everything’s doing. Um yes the Indian ones have got a boss there for the um um it was some emissions thing which had come in by then you see so that they got this boss on there I mean you’ll see it on the on the army uh 350 I’ve got and the other cast iron bullets I’ve got but the British one never had that. Army’s had new rockers, new valves, new springs, new rocker stansions. Um, everything everything has been done is everything is itemized what has been done and um, yes, very good. You know, I mean, I’m very pleased with it. Don’t get me wrong. I’m very pleased with it. I know the the the color doesn’t quite match the tank. The tank is slightly different color, but that doesn’t make any difference. I like the fact it’s got uh it’s got a speeding bullet in between the Royal and the Enfield. Probably not original, but it looks good. Yeah, I say the fork legs want polishing up. They want uh sanding down. Yeah, they’re very very oily. Everything’s been coated with something. Yeah, it has. So, it wants a good old clean up and it’s been obviously uh put away in storage. Um yeah, I’ll see if I can I’ll tell you what. I’ll see if I can get it going. I can’t do it with the camera. I’ll uh I’ll I’ll bring you back. Well, here we are. Um after lots of lunging on the kink kickstart, it doesn’t want to start. Um it’s fired a few times. It’s kicked back a pretty hard as well. So, I guess I’m going to have to check the timing. It seems a bit advanced to me. And I need to clean the carburetor out. Without the pilot jet in operation, it’s almost a dead loss. So, we’ll come back to this one. I say it’s a work in progress, this bike. There’s uh room for a lot of improvement on it. So, it’s a a little project which I shall sort out as I go. Right. Okay. I’m going to get on now and make the next video. I’ll see you later. Bye-bye.

Another Enfield joins the stable. This time a Redditch built, 1957 500 JS Bullet. @powysrider